Kinda.
I wasn't planning on doing a tutorial, but had a few requests so figured why not.
But… the tutorial is actually on a cupcake.
I hope this will be enough information for you wonderful bakers to translate it into any application that works best for you!
Now. For the very in depth and grueling tutorial.
Or not.
You can successfully create a lilac design is five easy steps.
(a cupcake or cake)
An optional step… you can see on my original cake that I didn't do that.
I also used a #101 and #102. I found them all to be about the same in this context.
And thats it! A Lilac Cupcake. Easy huh?
I made three different purples, and then decorated a cupcake using each color.
That got a bit boring so I made multi-colored cupcakes as well.
Still a little bored.
What else can we do?
Now these are fun! (and to be honest, sooooo much easier!)
I made all of these cupcakes the exact same way as I did the lilac cupcakes. Or should I say, the technique is the same.
The difference between the two versions is simply pressure. I made a bigger dollop for the cupcake on the right and a smaller dollop for the cupcake on the left.
I don't know, but I have a feeling that is what those tips were supposed to do. But since I am not a trained baker and I just make up stuff as I go along, I cant say for sure.
I bet you guys know… what exactly is a #101, #102, #103, and #104 piping tip for?
Now that I have shared my lack of technical intelligence with you all and am horribly ashamed, I might have to just go to my happy place.
Which is of course, anywhere I can find large quantities of cake and frosting.
Just sayin.
Very pretty!
Beautiful!!!!! I love the multi colored one in front of the pack. You have NO reason to be ashamed at all… not having any formal “technical intelligence” training only means you have nothing to unlearn.. no one has told you things are not possible.. so for you everything is possible… thank you for sharing with us.
LOL, girlie! I love that even the things you “don’t know” still turn out so fantastic! I love all of the cupcakes, but my very fave is the one that’s front-&-center in the last photo – too adorable!
These are FAB! I will have to make them for my mom, lilacs are her favorite and she returns tomorrow from a three week trip. THANKS!
Beautiful! I’m glad you posted a tutorial on how to make those.
Just a guess, but I bet even some people who know what those tips are for could not do half as well as you with them. You have a gift! I am always happy when I visit your blog. And it makes me think I can actually maybe kind of frost a cake and make it look pretty good. I’ll let you know. I have one cooling now. I love these cupcakes – how you take something so simple and turn into art like this is so much fun. you made my day.
Just a guess, but I bet even some people who know what those tips are for could not do half as well as you with them. You have a gift! I am always happy when I visit your blog. And it makes me think I can actually maybe kind of frost a cake and make it look pretty good. I’ll let you know. I have one cooling now. I love these cupcakes – how you take something so simple and turn into art like this is so much fun. you made my day.
The 101-104 tips are used to make petals, like what you see on a rose, for instance, but that doesn’t mean they arent what making your pretty lilacs as well!
I wanna be your neighbor so we can have tea and cupcakes every afternoon.
I’d be as fat as the house though.
I just love the things you create!! You are such a wizard with a piping tip!!
Very nice
Awesome tutorial! Thanks! I’ll be trying this one soon!
These are just beautiful, Amanda!!
These are just beautiful, Amanda!!
While I love the lilacs, the others that look like gerber daisies are fantastic! I love the ideas you come up with and trying them out myself. Thanks!
I think we could be best friends. I love all your stuff, so pretty and creative. Keep up the good work, cant wait to soo what comes next!!!!!
thanks for the tutorial. now i have another simple and beautiful idea to decorate a cake…
These are beautiful! I’m inspired!
Thanks for th tutorial
Although it’s hard to pick a favorite of your creations these are at the top. Lurve!
these are beautiful Amanda – just beautiful!! and i think even i, who is craft-challenged, might be able to do this!!
So pretty!
I like it. I like it a lot. I like you a lot.
Oh! Even prettier than the lilacs! I love the multi-colored. Thanks so much for the tutorial.
Those are sooo adorable and sooo pretty! =D
When I finish moving, I’m going to buy so many cake tips so I can decorate like you! So so purty.
lovely.
Those are the same tips you use to make roses.
I finished taking cake decorating classes a few months ago and wanted to do these exact cupcakes(mums) for one of my projects. I had seen some pics somewhere online and when I asked the instructor she told me to use a different tip (kind of a U shape). I didn’t like the way mine turned out, but I love yours!
If only I had your creativity and imagination! Keep up the GREAT work!
Love it! Hear the cry out here saying, “more, more, more!”?
I have been reading your blog for a while and just soaking it all in and now knowing you never had any actual training gives me all the more gumption to keep going with my decorating! I love your tutorials. Please keep it up!
wow it’s just beautiful! i will try this!!
Your cupcakes here are so pretty! I absolutely love that you come up with these flowers all on your own without any training at all. You are so creative!
I’ve taken two of the three Wilton cake decorating classes available at the Michael’s craft store where I live. There we were taught how to make roses with a tip 104 like in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxLnGEVBjAk but we also used tip 104 and 103 to make the petals for violets, apple blossoms, and primroses. They all use pretty much the same technique, shown here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9qgl4r3Hqc&playnext=1&list=PLE6E28FB705ADFC40
Hopefully that helps… I didn’t do a whole lot of digging around on youtube so there may be better videos out there… It took me a while in class to get the technique right. But once you get the hang of it, you can make so so many cute flowers =)
I love your blog…I always learn new things and I am a Wilton Instructor. I cant wait to try this out…thanks for sharing…we can all learn from each other. I love learning from my students. Keep up the great work!
Ohhh thats so sweet. It would look awesome when you have the lilac cake AND lilac cuppies on a table.. mhmmmm…wonderful.
Thanks for sharing your tutorial, Amanda. Love it!
blessings,
niner
These are fab – I love the one in the middle!
These are fab – I love the one in the middle!
They look great… will try it out!!
Nothing wrong with being self taught! Especially when you’ve got so much innate talent.
Nothing wrong with being self taught! Especially when you’ve got so much innate talent.
Brilliant!!! you KNOW how much I love this post don’t you! {wink}
I can’t wait to make some now!
Thanks Amanda, you ROCK my icing world!
Wow – I LOVE lilacs, but even if I didn’t, I’d LOVE these cupcakes! They look so absolutely professional. I see no reason at all for you to be “ashamed”!!! Thanks for sharing !
Those are the most beautiful cupcakes! Seriously – beautiful. I actually think I may be able to do these now!
Lilacs are my favorite flower! Love these!
So cute! Makes me wish I were smelling lilacs (my very favorite flower) right now.
As I scroll down the photos in your blog posts my eyes grow wider and wider. Gorgeous cuppy cakes girl! Love all your fab piping skills
As I scroll down the photos in your blog posts my eyes grow wider and wider. Gorgeous cuppy cakes girl! Love all your fab piping skills
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!!!
Loved your tutorial!!!
These are so gorgeous! I need to bust out my other frosting tip and try this technique out.
These are so pretty! I’m so glad you posted a tutorial. You make it look so easy, I think I might actually be able to make these! (:
It looks just as adorable on a cupcake! Great tutorial.
Amazing, Amanda, as always! I love your simplicity in decorating cakes and cupcakes. The colors and decorations pop, without being over the top like I feel the decorating in the Wilton courses are. As some other people commented, I would love to have you as my neighbor!
Oh I love the new design even better than the lilac design, and I was dreaming about that one last week. You’re amazingly creative. I must try this ASAP.
Oh lady what you can do a mixture of wet sugar…….simply genius
so beautiful! i love love love you work!
So beautiful!! You are blessed with such a gift, Amanda!
So beautiful!! You are blessed with such a gift, Amanda!
Beautiful work, Amanda!
Ohhhh, I really like the multicolored one that looks like three flowers in graduating sizes on top of each other. Oh, and I took a Wilton class where we used tip 104…and I can’t remember what for. LOL! I know we never used it this way, but I love your creativity. It works!
Thanks so much on this! You are amazing.
Thank you so much Amanda for sharing the simplicity of making these petals. You take something that looks so complicated and show us we can all do it – with practice.
Yet another beautiful cake design by Amanda! Well done.
Yet another beautiful cake design by Amanda! Well done.
Thanks! This is so great! And I appreciate that you don’t claim to know everything! Isn’t expirimenting with tools the fun of learning?
Just as beautiful as your cake!
Wow, beautiful!
Absolutely beautiful!
So pretty – and what is the lovely font you are using to get the handwritten instructions?
101.102,103,104 are all refered to as “petal tips” for ruffle making, flowers, and things of that nature!
These are gorgeous! I want them for lunch today!
These are so pretty!!
I must know where you got the metal cake platter. I MUST have one!!
I love the chrysanthemum cupcakes! I saw something like that in Martha Stewart’s cupcake book, but I was intimidated. Your technique is so simple and yet so lovely!
I just love your tutorials. *sigh* You make it look so easy. You are so talented, ya know that?
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I was searching for a cake to make for my MIL’s 80th. She is from Rochester, NY and there is a lilac festival every year. This will the perfect summer cake, easy to cut, easy to eat and I won’t take so much time away from the family during reunion week. Thanks so much for your tutorial. Everything is so beautiful, your cakes, your writing, your photography, your creativity…gush, gush, gush.
One question, my daughter and I were trying to guess if you used four colors on the cake and only three for the tutorial? I love the depth of color.
lol I love these! I did in on several cakes (the larger version you showed here) and I put all the colors in the bag so it was a “tye-dye” kinda look… very trippy, very hippy I loved it and so did the girls
You are one talented women! those looks amazing and thanks for the tutorial!!
Thanks for the tutorial…I may just have to bake some cupcakes this weekend.
These are just gorgeous and you have truly inspired me to give this a go – and since I am not known for my decorating prowess that is saying something!!
These are just gorgeous and you have truly inspired me to give this a go – and since I am not known for my decorating prowess that is saying something!!
Love this tutorial! This gives me hope that I may one day be able to ice a decent cupcake
Love this tutorial! This gives me hope that I may one day be able to ice a decent cupcake
So pretty! I love the colors!!!
i just love that color scheme. lovely cuppies indeed.
So pretty and so do-able! I never think of things like this..so creative!
Gorgeous! I love to cook, but I’m new to baking. I can’t wait to try this!
Great tutorial and a beautiful little flower!
Beautiful! I never knew I loved purple so much:) I do!
Ha, ha, saw your cake and asked for a how to and just found it!
Thanks! I love the cupcakes to.
Very cute! Not a baker, maybe, but you are definitely a cake decorator!!! Thanks for the lesson.
I made the daisy flower design on tie dye cupcakes. They turned out so cute. Thanks for the idea.
Stunningly pretty (if I can say that)!
These are beautiful, Amanda! Will have to make these sometime.